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Man survives double-suicide attempt on Interstate 79 in Washington County

Updated: 1:55 PM EST Jan 8, 2013

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Man survives double-suicide attempt on Interstate 79 in Washington County

Updated: 1:55 PM EST Jan 8, 2013

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CANONSBURG, Pa. —

State police say a man twice tried to kill himself during the Tuesday morning rush hour on Interstate 79 in Washington County.

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First, the 22-year-old man jumped out of a car in the northbound lanes before Exit 41 while he was getting a ride to work at about 7:45 a.m., police said.

About a half-hour later, he climbed over a guiderail from an adjacent hillside, went onto the southbound shoulder at the South Central Avenue bridge and walked in front of a tractor-trailer that knocked him out of his shoes, police said.

"The tractor-trailer then passed over (the man), and he then jumped up and grabbed his shoes and then jumped back over the guiderail and slid down the hillside onto nearby streets and walked away," a trooper from the Washington station wrote.

After being found at the business where he works, the man was taken to Canonsburg Hospital and then flown to a Pittsburgh hospital for more treatment, police said.